Naples, Filangieri Museum sets up exhibition with Maradona memorabilia

The Filangieri Museum in Naples, a civic museum venue that brings together more than 3,000 objects including examples of applied arts, paintings and sculptures between the 16th and 19th centuries and a picture gallery boasting 17th-century Neapolitan works by artists such as Jusepe de Ribera, Luca Giordano, Andrea Vaccaro, Battistello Caracciolo, and Mattia Preti, will host an exhibition featuring collectible memorabilia of Diego Armando Maradona.

The agreement was reached between museum director Paolo Jorio, Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris, Culture Councillor Eleonora de Majo and Sports Councillor Ciro Borriello. An idea born from the great affection shown for the Pibe de Oro in these days after his passing. Indeed, there have been so many tributes that fans and others have dedicated to Maradona, from scarves to banners, from balls to T-shirts to letters, all gathered in the city’s most representative places linked to the famous footballer.

The exhibition will be titled Symphony of a Happiness: Napoli es mi casa, and will be set up with part of the memorabilia collected by the city and collectible memorabilia representing the history of Maradona and Napoli.

Since Nov. 26, the day after the great footballer’s passing, the Filangieri Museum has chosen for a few days to keep its door open and display images of Maradona, the scarf and the Napoli flag. “For a football player? Yes, because sport, from Olympia onward represents the possibility of giving life to heroes, to impossible feats, to victories that detach from mediocrity, to overcoming race and bullying, to the materialization of dreams. To the dream that, everyone, can make it. And Diego Armando Maradona represented this and much more,” said Director Paolo Jorio. “The Filangieri Museum will host Maradona’s memorabilia,” he added. “An emotional journey that will give happiness, the same that Maradona gave to Neapolitans. Today the function of the museum is also to represent the memory of the territory. The Filangieri Museum is the ideal venue for this exhibition. It has a history behind it related to the right to happiness; it was Filangieri senior who wrote precisely a revolutionary work on the right to happiness.”

“Diego Armando Maradona will also continue to be immortal through the many initiatives we have already launched and are organizing,” commented the mayor of Naples. “This one of ’Napoli es mi casa’ will be the long caress that the Neapolitan people are reserving for their immense champion. Diego, an unmatched genius, Diego our citizen, Diego who gave us great joys many smiles and also many tears will also have this tribute.”

“The global power of the figure of Diego, the moving relationship with the city, the secular veneration that has crossed the entire world, the recognition of a planetary community that has loved him without ifs and buts, has overwhelmed us and led us in a few days to do, despite this very difficult period, everything possible to celebrate him with initiatives that are, however, permanent,” added Councillors de Majo and Borriello. “Hence the naming of the stadium in recent days and the organization of this exhibition now. The desire that moves us is to live up to this enormous responsibility and work during these months to definitively consecrate our city, Naples, the city of Maradona.”

Naples, Filangieri Museum sets up exhibition with Maradona memorabilia

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